of the united states of america. i yield back me balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. fattah: let me say a couple of things. our country managed to limp along for a few hundred years, we're the leading nation in the world, the wealthiest nation in the world, the number one superpower, i don't know how we got here with all these imperfections in our voting system but we will try to go forward. this notion that voter i.d.'s, for instance in the state of texas, you have a concealed weapons permit by the state, that's good, you can vote with it. if you have a state i.d. from the state university, that's not good. in our state of pennsylvania, we've got 30 different types of i.d.'s that you can and can't use. the republican governors and legislatures through the our country this year have all come to the same conclusion. it's like a consensus that